Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 73
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Untitled
Garden of Delights
1957
Oil and pasted papers on board
22 x 16 in. (55.9 x 40.6 cm)
Alternative Title: Untitled
1958
Oil and pasted papers on board
11¼ x 8¼ in. (28.6 x 21 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left, incised: R Motherwell
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Unknown owner; private collection,
1977; Margo Leavin Gallery, Los
Angeles, 1977; private collection, 1978;
private collection and Margo Leavin
Gallery, Los Angeles, 1989; unknown
owner, 1989
group exhibitions
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles,
1978.
comments
The pasted papers in this work include
a torn Wolfschmidt’s vodka label and
part of a Gauloises cigarette package.
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: R.M. 58
Verso: For Sam Hunter 5 January
1958 from his friend Robert
Motherwell
present owner
Williams College Museum of Art. Gift
of Sam Hunter, class of 1944, 73.59
provenance
Sam Hunter, 1958; Williams College
Museum of Art, Williamstown, Mass.,
1973
references
Gratz 1973, p. 37.
comments
In 1958 Motherwell gave this collage
to the art historian Sam Hunter as an
untitled work. The Williams College
Museum of Art acquired it in 1973.
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In 1984, the museum’s registrar wrote
to Motherwell regarding a small collage
element that was missing from the
lower right part of the composition.
On December 19, 1984, Motherwell’s
curator replied on his behalf: “I have
discussed the problem of the missing
collage element with Robert and he
feels that the collage should be left as it
is and that the glue area actually ‘constitutes a subtle form alongside some
very definitive ones.’ To eliminate it
would leave the picture unbalanced and
to restore it is impossible. In addition,
he would like the work to be titled
‘Garden of Delights’ ” (Dedalus
Foundation Archives). The “delights”
of the title probably refer in part to the
collage elements, which include labels
from 4711 Kölnisch Eau de Cologne,
Callard & Bowser’s butterscotch candies, and English Ovals cigarettes.
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Fockink No. 1
1958/ca. 1965
Oil, gouache, and pasted papers on
paperboard mounted on silk mat board
31 x 24 in. (78.7 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: R Motherwell 58
Verso: “fockink, no. 1” Robert
Motherwell 1958 oil + collage
artist’s studio number
c58-1535
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Barbara
Mathes Gallery, New York, 2002;
private collection, 2005
solo exhibitions
New Gallery, Bennington College, Vt.,
1959, cat. no. 19 (shown in early state),
as Fockink.
Galerie Heinz Berggruen, Paris, 1961,
illus. n.p. (shown in early state).
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